COLLOCATIONS

WHY DO WORDS
COLLOCATE?
There is often no reason for a collocation.

People just put certain words together more often than they put other
words together. In fact, the use of collocations has become popular in
English and language teaching because of corpus linguistics. Corpus
linguistics study huge volumes of data of spoken and written English to
come up with statistics on how often people use certain words and word
combinations.

Through this study, corpus linguistics has been able to define what are
strong and weak collocations.